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Predominance of Antibody-Resistant SARS-Cov-2 Variants in Vaccine Breakthrough Cases from the San medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.19.21262139; this version posted August 25, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license . Predominance of antibody-resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants in vaccine breakthrough cases from the San Francisco Bay Area, California Venice Servellita1,2, Mary-Kate Morris3, Alicia Sotomayor-Gonzalez1,2, Amelia S. Gliwa1,2, Erika Torres4, Noah Brazer1,2, Alicia Zhou4, Katherine T. Hernandez5, Madeline Sankaran5, Baolin Wang1,2, Daniel Wong1,2, Candace Wang1,2, Yueyuan Zhang1,2, Kevin R Reyes1,2, Dustin Glasner1,2, Xianding Deng1,2, Jessica Streithorst1,2, Steve Miller1,2, Edwin Frias6, John Hackett, Jr.6, Carl Hanson3, Debra Wadford3, Susan Philip5, Scott Topper4, Darpun Sachdev5, Charles Y. Chiu1,2,7,8* 1Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, California, USA 2UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, San Francisco, California, USA 3Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory, California Department of Public Health 4Color Genomics, Inc., San Francisco, California, USA 5San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA 6Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, USA 7Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, California, USA 8Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA *corresponding author NOTE: This preprint reports new research that has not been certified by peer review and should not be used to guide clinical practice. medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.19.21262139; this version posted August 25, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license . Abstract Associations between vaccine breakthrough cases and infection by SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants have remained largely unexplored. Here we analyzed SARS-CoV-2 whole-genome sequences and viral loads from 1,373 persons with COVID-19 from the San Francisco Bay Area from February 1 to June 30, 2021, of which 125 (9.1%) were vaccine breakthrough infections. Fully vaccinated were more likely than unvaccinated persons to be infected by variants carrying mutations associated with decreased antibody neutralization (L452R, L452Q, E484K, and/or F490S) (78% versus 48%, p = 1.96e-08), but not by those associated with increased infectivity (L452R and/or N501Y) (85% versus 77%, p = 0.092). Differences in viral loads were non-significant between unvaccinated and fully vaccinated persons overall (p = 0.99) and according to lineage (p = 0.09 – 0.78). Viral loads were significantly higher in symptomatic as compared to asymptomatic vaccine breakthrough cases (p < 0.0001), and symptomatic vaccine breakthrough infections had similar viral loads to unvaccinated infections (p = 0.64). In 5 cases with available longitudinal samples for serologic analyses, vaccine breakthrough infections were found to be associated with low or undetectable neutralizing antibody levels attributable to immunocompromised state or infection by an antibody-resistant lineage. These findings suggest that vaccine breakthrough cases are preferentially caused by circulating antibody-resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants, and that symptomatic breakthrough infections may potentially transmit COVID-19 as efficiently as unvaccinated infections, regardless of the infecting lineage. medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.19.21262139; this version posted August 25, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license . Introduction Vaccines targeting the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been highly effective in preventing symptomatic illness and in reducing hospitalizations and deaths from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)1-8. Prior studies have also suggested that vaccination may reduce viral loads in persons with breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection who have received at least one dose7,9, thus potentially decreasing infectiousness and mitigating transmission. However, most of these studies were done prior to the emergence of “antibody-resistant” SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern / variants of interest (VOCs/VOIs) carrying key mutations that have been shown to decrease antibody (Ab) neutralization (L452R/Q, E484K/Q, and/or F490S), including the beta (B.1.351), gamma (P.1), delta (B.1.617.2), epsilon (B.1.427/B.1.429), and lambda (C.37)10, but not alpha (B.1.1.7) variants11-13. Breakthrough infections have been reported in a small proportion of vaccine recipients3,14-17, yet little is known regarding the relative capacity of different variants to escape vaccine-induced immunity and facilitate ongoing spread within highly vaccinated communities. In San Francisco County, a sharp decline in COVID-19 cases following a 2020-2021 winter outbreak of the epsilon variant in California11,18 preceded mass vaccination efforts (Figure 1A). From February to June 2021, the number of cases per day continued to gradually decrease, despite a nationwide outbreak from the alpha variant in the United States19 and the continual introduction of other VOCs/VOIs into the community18. In late June, there was an uptick of delta variant cases presaging a surge of infections from this variant in the county and nationwide18. Here we performed whole-genome sequencing and viral load measurements of nasal swabs in conjunction with retrospective medical chart review from COVID-19 infected persons over a 5-month timeframe to investigate dynamic longitudinal shifts in the distribution of SARS-CoV-2 variants and to identify potential correlates of breakthrough infections in a progressively vaccinated community. Results medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.19.21262139; this version posted August 25, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license . We performed whole-genome sequencing of available remnant mid-turbinate nasal, nasopharyngeal and/or oropharyngeal (OP) swab samples collected from 1,373 PCR-positive COVID-19 cases from San Francisco County from February 1 to June 30, 2021. During this study period, the percentage of eligible persons vaccinated in the county increased from 2 to 70%, while the 7-day rolling average number of cases per day declined from 150 to 20. (Figure 1A and B). The cohort included COVID-19 patients seen in hospitals and clinics at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF, n=598, 43.6%) and infected persons identified by community testing in San Francisco County performed by a commercial laboratory (Color Genomics, n=775, 56.4%). Using the CDC definition of a vaccine breakthrough infection as a positive SARS-CoV-2 RNA or antigen test ≥14 days after completion of all recommended doses20, 125 (9.1%) of infections in the cohort were vaccine breakthroughs (Table 1), and the percentage of sequenced cases that were vaccine breakthroughs increased from 0% to 31.8% from February to June (Figure 1C). Among the viruses sequenced from the 1,373 cases, 69% (945 of 1,373) were unambiguously assigned to a SARS-CoV-2 lineage (Table 1). Over the 5-month study period, the proportion of circulating antibody-resistant variants, or those containing the L452R/Q, E484 K/Q, and/or F490S mutations, was 47.7% (329 of 690 sequenced genomes with identifiable mutations) (Table 1), while the proportion of variants with increased infectivity, or those containing the L452R/Q, F490S, and/or N501T/Y mutations, was 76.8% (542 of 706 sequenced genomes with identifiable mutations). The proportion of antibody-resistant variants, calculated by aggregating cases with lineages carrying resistance-associated mutations over 2-week intervals, increased from 40% to 89% (Figure 1E), while the proportion of variants with increased infectivity increased from 49% to 94% (Figure 1F). In unvaccinated cases, most viruses consisted of non-resistant variants (61% and 57% based on community and UCSF testing, respectively) (Figure 2A, right), in contrast to vaccinated cases, for which the proportions of non-resistant variants dropped to 34% and 20%, respectively (Figure 2A, left). Alpha was the only non-resistant variant associated with breakthrough infection in vaccinated cases. Overall, fully vaccinated cases were significantly more likely than unvaccinated cases to be infected by resistant variants (77.6% versus 47.7%, p=1.96e-08) (Figure 2B, top and Table 1), but not by variants associated with increased infectivity (84.7% versus 76.8%, p = medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.19.21262139; this version posted August 25, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license . 0.092) (Figure 2B, bottom and Table 1). The distribution of
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